Variety: Denise Nickerson, Violet in ‘Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,’ Dies at 62

I remember the field trip from SHGS to the Montana Theater to see this movie. Ironically, most of my life I've believed things that were not true. I'd just reluctantly relinquished my belief in Santa Claus prior to seeing this flick. I thought her being from was some sort of voice over trick from the projector room and wasn't real. It wasn't until I watched the movie with my own kids, along time later, I learn that in the movie she really was from Miles City, MT.

She wasn't in the play so when the Barn did it here, she was. Denise Nickerson, on the other hand, is young. My age. So sad.